Modern Fiction (post 1945)

As history reaches a tipping point, the forces unleashed by the Transition threaten to bring the future crashing down in ruins. Will Hitler and Tojo finish their race towards an...

March 1939 Estelle is the headstrong daughter of Fleur, a Resistance legend who disappeared during the Great War, supposedly killed while helping Allied soldiers to escape. Christa, an only child,...

Max and Tine arrive on the Greek island of her childhood holidays. Both are in their mid twenties and this is their first serious relationship. Max is relatively inexperienced with...

The gripping new international thriller, racing between the US, Russia, Israel and Australia Russian President Petrov is determined to restore his country's dominance on the world stage at any price....

Sally is big, blonde and pampered. She's married to Richard. But she loves Jerry. Jerry loves Sally in return, but he's also still in love with his wife Ruth. Who's...

Time is not what it seems ... As mankind faces its deadliest battle, two young women must unite to prevent the forces of evil destroying the world as we know...

Strikingly sharp and thrillingly violent, Little Criminals is the celebrated debut of the doyen of Dublin crime and winner of the Gold Dagger 2012. Justin and Angela Kennedy have money,...

'You may never read a novel crafted with more wonder and mystery' - Arthur Golden, author of Memoirs of a Geisha. The year is 1957 and the place is Paris,...

A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. A dark, brooding and erotic ghost story. Can you imagine what it must be like to take the souls of others? Marcello Mansini...

What If . . . You Were Handed a Ticket That Could Magically Start Your Life Anew? In what is sure to become a classic, Brendon Burchard has crafted a...

The brand new dramatic novel about the power of a father's love, a little boy's journey,and the desperate search for a place to call home, from Number 1 best-selling author...

Nicci Morrison was always the first of her friends to do everything... But she wasn't meant to be the first to die. Saying goodbye is never easy, but at least...

The powerful new besteller from the country's number one storyteller. In a 1930's setting, Live The Dream tells the story of three people caught up in a tangle of love...

I pounded myself against the inside of his head, but it was useless. He couldn t hear me; I was trapped. So, like any other prisoner, I waited. I bided...

From the international bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale, Life Before Man is a tragicomic tale of love seeking to find its way in the wake of death. Life Before...

'All she had needed was the certainty of his love, and his reassurance that there was no hurry when a lifetime lay ahead of them' It is July 1962. Edward...

THE SIX LOVES OF BILLY BINNS is a deeply moving and honest debut set in London against the backdrop of the changing 20th century. it is reading group fiction perfect...

A killer flees the scene of a homicide at a prestigious Manhattan music school and locks himself in a classroom. Within minutes, the police have him surrounded. Then a scream...

As she grows up, Charlotte longs for freedom, but her captivating innocence leads her into trouble. Sent to Ireland to hide a shameful pregnancy, she discovers that once again her...

WINNER: PAUL TORDAY MEMORIAL PRIZE 2020. In the small hours of January 1st, 1919, the cruellest twist of fate changed at a stroke the lives of an entire community. Tormod...

Reyna knows her relationship with Boyd isn't perfect, yet as she visits him throughout his three-month stint in prison, their bond grows tighter. Kiki, now settled in New York after...

Pal has a shameful secret that has dragged him into huge debt, much more than he can ever hope to pay back on his modest salary as a civil servant....

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, thirty years after the end of the...

After an absence of seven years, Greg Bowman returns home from America to find his father lying in a bamboo coffin, his estranged brother Billy stalking a woman with no...

'A shimmering, sexy, thrilling tale of intrigue and desire, and the dark paths we walk to keep our secrets safe. Bell has written a shining debut' Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author...

From award-winning novelist Nicole Dennis-Benn comes this beautifully layered portrait of motherhood, immigration and sacrifice For Patsy, a visa to America is her ticket to freedom, a passport to the...

WELCOME TO THE GIRLFRIEND EXPERIMENT Mary is out of options. Estranged from her family and beset by phantom pain, she signs up for 'The Girlfriend Experiment' - a mysterious project...

REMEMBER ME WHEN THE COMET COMES... On the day the comet came, a girl named Heloise was born. She would live a fine life, and inherit a fortune, but would...

A powerful tale of honour, prejudice and the twentieth century's most maltreated hero, by the acclaimed author of THE GIRL IN THE SPIDER'S WEB. June 8, 1954. Alan Turing, the...

'An engrossing, enthralling and utterly captivating read, The Young Pretender tells a simply remarkable story with bounce, energy, wit, and lively authenticity . . . Michael Arditti's brilliant imaginative achievement...

It's never too late to learn what family means . . . When the Templeton family from England takes up residence in a stately home in Australia, they set the...

'The book I wish I'd written? Whatever Hari Kunzru is publishing next' Aravind Adiga 'Astonishing, absorbing, terrifying. Immensely good.' Philip Pullman ' 'Red Pill stands as a final blast of...

Original and intriguing - C.J. Tudor Kept me gripped to the last page - Sarah J. Harris The answers are in his head. She just has to find them. A...

EVERY STORY HAS TWO SIDES . . . Daniel and Luke are unlikely best friends. Their bond has stood the test of time, through marriages, children and tragedies. But hidden...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE AN POST IRISH CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 'A superb novel, evoking a bygone era when women could not afford to put a foot wrong' SUNDAY TIMES...

Resembling a musical sextet where no two instruments are the same, but all instruments blend to form a single sound, Henry Miller's Sextet combines six jive-talkin', fresh, and impromptu pieces...

***A beautiful 10th anniversary paperback edition that i ncludes a new essay by Victoria Hislop on the impact of this million-copy bestseller.*** 'A moving and absorbing holiday read that pulls...

In the dead of night, Ayesha takes her daughter, Sabina, and slips quietly from her home, leaving behind a life of full of pain. Boarding a coach to London, all...

A man of infinite jest, Pocket has been Lear's cherished fool for years, from the time the king's grown daughters - selfish, scheming Goneril, sadistic but hot Regan, and sweet,...

'What are you feeling so anxious about? I'm the guy who has to go out there and lose.' 'That's what I don't like. That's what you don't realise. It's harder...

Shortlisted for the 2015 Costa First Novel AwardEight-year-old Carmel has always been different - sensitive, distracted, with an heartstopping tendency to go missing. Her mother Beth, newly single, worries about...

From the bestselling author of Everything Is Beautiful, comes an utterly heartwarming new novel, about what it truly means to belong to those you love. 'A warm-hearted, emotional read' Daily...

A brilliant collection of short stories from Leonora Brito exploring race, identity, and love Leonora Brito was a writer of exceptional stories. In Dat's Love, she soaks up the sights,...

With a new introduction by Gilbert Adair Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean...

The devastating follow-up to the massive bestseller The Outcast. What happens when everything a man believes in - the army, his country, his marriage - begins to crumble... Hal Treherne...

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